UMBC’s win over Virginia was enough to end any chance of anyone putting together a perfect bracket in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge.
ESPN said Sunday night that the UMBC upset meant that the first round of the tournament concluded with no perfect brackets intact.
And then there were none. pic.twitter.com/tnHOALbksr
— ESPN (@espn) March 17, 2018
Sometimes a handful of brackets sneak into the third day of the tournament intact after someone nailed the winners of the first 32 games. The Retrievers certainly took care of that, and frankly, it would have been a big surprise if anyone had managed to go 32-for-32 given what transpired.
It wasn’t a total loss, though — someone will make a pretty penny off the UMBC win.
